Yeah, it's some kind of surgical glue. I can shower with it and everything. It's pretty neat. It's pretty swollen below it right now, so it looks like I have a goiter (ah, the irony).
So you have half a thyroid too, huh? Do you have to take meds? How long has it been since yours?
Glue. I like glue. Plus, somehow it doesn't look like you tried to glue your head back on the way it looked like I tried to tape my head back on.
I got my surgery in 2001, so I guess it's been a while now. I remember thinking that medicine had really come a long way (no stitches! very little pain!), and it's come even further since then.
Hey, since my surgery was in 2001, that means I had my scar when I visited you and Patrick. That means you have seen it!
I'm lucky and my other half of a thyroid gland is doing just fine all by itself. It's making just the right amount of hormone and has not (yet) learned how to make a large fluid-filled cyst like my other half had.
However, hypothyroidism runs in my family, so it might just be a matter of time. At least they have meds now, and even if you're overweight, more doctors will actually recognize it instead of just telling you to "just" lose some weight so you won't be so tired. (When if you weren't so tired, it might be easier to lose some weight.) But meanwhile, I get to be healthy for cheap!
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Date: 2008-11-25 02:13 am (UTC)So you have half a thyroid too, huh? Do you have to take meds? How long has it been since yours?
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Date: 2008-11-30 04:09 am (UTC)I got my surgery in 2001, so I guess it's been a while now. I remember thinking that medicine had really come a long way (no stitches! very little pain!), and it's come even further since then.
Hey, since my surgery was in 2001, that means I had my scar when I visited you and Patrick. That means you have seen it!
I'm lucky and my other half of a thyroid gland is doing just fine all by itself. It's making just the right amount of hormone and has not (yet) learned how to make a large fluid-filled cyst like my other half had.
However, hypothyroidism runs in my family, so it might just be a matter of time. At least they have meds now, and even if you're overweight, more doctors will actually recognize it instead of just telling you to "just" lose some weight so you won't be so tired. (When if you weren't so tired, it might be easier to lose some weight.) But meanwhile, I get to be healthy for cheap!